Here are 10 of his boldest points from May 29 that he is likely to repeat:

• "Bill Clinton was thrown out as governor of Arkansas in 1980
because he raised registration fees. But the mayor gave me oversight of the
Bureau of Transportation that made me think I should do something about these
safety issues. I would rather try to solve these problems and lose the next
election than not try to solve them and win it."

• "So this morning I emailed Steve Townsend, our chief
engineer, and said, 'Is it
an exaggeration to say that given the path we’re on, in 20-30 years, we will have the streets of a third world
city?' And he
responded, 'That is
not an exaggeration. That is the path we are on.'”

• "The point we’re trying to make is that it costs hundreds of dollars a
month to maintain your car, in terms of gas taxes and regulation fees…and your car isn’t worth much without a road. So we
kind of think that, compared to a car, although the roads are expensive, they’re a relative bargain."

• "All it would take is a few disgruntled rich people —
none of the nice rich people I know —
to raise money to prefer a ballot and defeat it… So we’re faced with the prospect that if we send this to voters
we could run an election on street fees and maybe we win but maybe we lose."

• "The [Institute of Transportation Engineers] manual treats parking lots as things that don’t generate trips. There are parking
lots that have employees. There certainly are trips that employees themselves
take. We want to modify the ITE’s approach and recognize that there are a few people who
take trips and take that into account."

• "So all other cities have adopted street fees. And as the
mayor said, as far as we know, all of them did it by a council vote, they didn’t send it out for public vote. I know
the answer for at least 20 of them, there’s another eight where I don’t know the answer, but for all the ones I know the answer
for, they did it without a public vote."

• "People want the problem to be solved and the problem has to
be solved, but there’s no
popular way to solve the problem. So the elected officials have to bite the
bullet and make the tough choice."

• "We thought that the business community was on board with
the method we had for calculating the business fee… What I discovered, especially
reading emails from small business owners this week, is that there are a lot of
business people who weren’t part
of that discussion in 2007."

• "We considered the possibility of completely exempting low
income people from the fee. The problem is…if you are exempting people based on income, then the
courts will say it’s not a
fee, it’s a
tax, and you get into the issues you had with the arts tax where you have to
exempt people on PERS, etc."

• "I don’t like
the regressivity of having a fee, but it will be spent in a progressive way,
because much of the spending will be in the lowest income parts of the city."